Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-29

morning with little more than quorum pres
ent. Mr.. Eisley of Madison surprised some
people by moving to reconsider tho vote by
which the anti-libel bill was killed on last
Saturday. The motion prevailed and vote
was taken. During its progress several men,
bers displayed unusual eagerness to secure
the requisite vote. Mr.. Young of Douglas
was equally busy in working against the
movement. The following is the vote:
;, Ayes-Agee, Andrews, ,Babcock, Baird,
Gope Crane Bs0Tp bkon Gndne pr Gnnn0p 8as SGS
LeIsyeld, Marshall, Mccain, MeConaughy,
McGrew, Newcomer, Newton, Nichol, Nor.
RS, pe,m6erton, Peters. Randall, Raym2ntd,
hellmsen. Wilsey and Yutzy-39.
Fox, &c GImoTe' PqSs Harrison, neImr%%a, mors,
Wright, Young and MIR. speaker--l6.
Aiken, Bailey, Barrett, Bentley, Bick, Cam
eeron;, Craig, Eggleston, Ellis, Fenton, Gam
Knox, Latta, Lord, Matthieson, McKenna,
Miller, Minnix, Overton, Satchel. Schwab,
Sinms, Slater, Sulliyan. Sweet. Tingle
vessSy vfscsSy wason usGssd%e Witt TqWy9G nHsrh
| and Wolenweber
Before announcing the vote Mr.. Young
raised a point Of order to the, effect that
VIC sote vi oaiuruay On the liOel Dill cOuld
members over a quorum present and to re-
| consider required two-thirds of the members
elected voting in the affirmative. Rule Sc
passed or rejected shall be called up for re-
consideration during the saihe session unless
in favor of taking up the same" BY the
were intended and contrasted with it another
| section where, in regard to changing rules,
| tne WORDS members present occur. The
chair held the point was not well taken.
asked Nj Eisley, whOh stood against
| the Dill on Saturday, why he changed. lie
said at the request and with the understand
ing that the bill would be amended so as to
cut out the feature .provi ding for the prose-
cut!on of the offending editor in any county
| in the state.
Mr.. Russell, who was active in support of
the reconsideration, said the intent was to
pass the bill as 1t originated in the senate, as
Section |. If any person shall write, print
or publish any false or malicious libel
OF or concerning another, or shall cause
Sr nabsbss abg sac Ds to be writ
Offending shall, upon conviction thereof,
be fined in any. sum not exceeding
soVO be imprisoned in the county Jail not
exceeding six months. or both, at the discre-
ton of the court, and moreover be liable to
the party injured; provided, that If such
libel Is published in a newspaper having a
general circulation the person so offending
shall be punished by imprisonment In the
penitentiary not less than one nor more than
| three years.
Section 2. That section AZ of chapter of the
code OF criminal procedure be and the same
ishereby repealed.
The house went into committee of the
whole, MIR. Shamp in the chair, on the order
recommended by the committee on selection
The following bills were passed: House
roll 4S7, providing assistance to the attorney
general, was recommended for passage, and
479. creating Thurston county, was laid
over informally The committee rose
and reported fI and again returned ned,
were recommended for PASSAGE: 49, for the
relief Of John Gillespie; 10, making the age
OF consent fifteen years; 2', relating to at
ton days legal holidays, and s, relating to the
passage of the interstate commerce bill, were
indefinitely postponed. File IL was indeii-
nitely postponed.
S AFTERNOON SESSION.
The house read a number of bills the third
time and passed the following: House roll
$50, perfecting the title to a parcel of prop
In coany sle pr9yIdng that
If the damages be under SIS; 35S, appropriate
ing $1,000 for furniture for the adjutant gen.
erals office; 1853, extingushing the admins
case Of marriage; ss7, providing for "u the en-. n
ployment of q county prosecutor where
change of venue has been taken from one
county to another; go, providing for a stu
dents battalion at the university, ana 22s22,
providing for the erection of a Grant memo
rial hah at the university, to be used for the
military department of that institute. $?0,-
600 are appropriated for this work.
| House roll 215 was indefinitely postponed.
| The governor announced that he had
| signed house rolls 475 and 49, for the relief
of kearney and Cass counties respectively.
House roll 4, for preventing the illegal sale
or giving away Of malt, spirltuous or yinous
liquors, was recommitted by vote of 81 to
35. This bill enables two resident freehold.
ers to file complaint that Intoxicating drinks
sons. If the charge be sustained the seized
LIQUORS of the accused are to be destroyed
and the owner fined, 1t was discovered that
a mistake had been made in the count and
accordingly placed upon its passage and for
the third time this session the anti-liquor ee-
ment received black eye. The vote was as
| follows:
Ayes -Abrahamson, Aiken, Andrews
Babccck, Bailey, Baird, Ballard, Cannon
Cole, Cope Craig, Crane, Dempster, Diller
Eggleston. FentOn, Fuller. Gatford, Green,
Sssy sss5y kesy kkeGnsy hG Se%
ton, Nichol, Norris, Pemberton, Peters, Ran
dali, Shamp,, Simms, Thornton, Underhill
Warasiaw, w. snSy Wetherald' Wilson, Yutzy. and
Nays--Andres, Bentley, Bowman. Brown
Caldwell, Dickinson, Elsley, Ellis, Ewing,
Frantz. Fuchs, Gamble. Garyey, Gilmore
Harrison, Hayden, HeimrOd, Horst, KEEPER
Knox, Leisveld, Matthieson. Miller, Over
ton, Raymond, Ref, RUSSELL Simanek,
| Smyth, Sullivan, Sweet Tyson, Watson
White. WhitmOre, Wilhelmsen, Wilsey
| Wright and YOung-S9.
Mr.. Randall first voted in the negative and
| said that his object was to move for a recon-
sderation, but as there was q majority pres
ent who could pass only free whisky bills he
would change to aye.
House roll 6S was passed authorizing the
appointment of deputy attorney general
also 225, amending tile statutes in decedents
Mr.. Dempster's compulsory education bill
was passed by a vote OF 64 to o.
Mr.. White bill redhiring private benevO
lent societies to submit to examination by tire
state auditor was reported amended by the
senate ana the same c0ncurred in.
Mr.. Cadwell's bill, providing that ma
iority of the taxpayers of school district
may determine as to whether books may be
fun ished free to pupils, and Mr.. Helpers
house roll l42, apprOpriating $1,000 for state
geological survey, were recommended fol
| passage.
Mr.. Sweets bill, preventing cruelty to ami
mails including dogs, was next passed.
Mr.. COpe's bill, establishing an industrial
home with a view to aid in the suppression
Of prostitution and approprlating SIS, 900 fol
the same was recommended for passsge.
Recess.
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